Hmm … recalling how much I used to look forward to those holiday “specails” — ah, the good old three-channels-and-nothing-on days of the 1970s BC (“Before Cable”) — I doubt that this little screed was representative of my own views. Whoever assigned it would probably be horrified to know that I was in Lowe’s yesterday and found it overrun with tinsel and Christmas trees.

I’m still not convinced that first picture depicts a snowman. Knowing me, I might have been going for a stack of pumpkins.